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Microsoft Office Sucks: Go Blog On Something Else

Posted on 30. Oct, 2009 by Ashwin in Business Blogging

Technology has a beautiful way to freak me out; this isn’t the first time I got jinxed. My iphone gave up on me the other day and now my ASUS Eee PC 1000H netbook just got conked. I happened to be working on it; went for a break and then came back to see that it got into this never ending loop of “Sorry, windows couldn’t load due to a software/hardware change“.

It’s been two days now without that little monster in my hands and I feel stripped bare. What does that tell me?

• Technology is like an unpredictable, arrogant teenager: You never know what a teenager might end up doing, would you? Nasty, young brats. All these gadgets are like that — iphone, blackberry, android, laptops, leaptops, failtops, whatever. It just doesn’t get any better for you when you have been working on a project and your system suddenly crashes, hurling you right back into stone-age.
• Go find your cloud: I was just thinking about the obvious advantages of cloud computing and using web-based tools for all our web related work. It was like all those tools were grinning at me with that look that seems to say ” I-told-you-so”. So like a monkey with a tender coconut, I am all weary but still excited about the fact that with Google Documents, Zoho Suite, etc, I don’t have to depend on a cranky laptop or PC with an even more juvenile and unpredictable Microsoft XP.
• Without back-ups, you are playing a tricky video game with one life: Life is complicated as it is and we humans excel at making it even more complex. We could do little things to make our lives better and yet we don’t do a thing. In my case, I didn’t. I had no back-ups for all my work. I have been working on several projects and all of that just got vaporized. Can you imagine the pain of re-working on all those projects? There are some nifty online back-up systems which can continuously update all data on your computer on a redundant server (with another back-up).

Now, I know. Have you had an experience of losing all your data just like that? Do let us know here, we will feel better with others having swallowed the bitter pill I just did ( We are sick, aren’t we?)

Tags: Google Docs, Microsoft Office sucks, Technology fails. downside of technology, Zoho Suite